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Enhancing the Quality of the People: A Twenty-First Century Politics of Life Enhancing the Quality of the People: A Twenty-First Century Politics of Life
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A Mythic Past: Biologized National Subjects A Mythic Past: Biologized National Subjects
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A Revolutionary Past: Subjects of Socialist Struggle A Revolutionary Past: Subjects of Socialist Struggle
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The Wartime Past: Subjects of Suffering and Compassion The Wartime Past: Subjects of Suffering and Compassion
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2 A Collectivizing Biopolitics
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Published:February 2014
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Abstract
This chapter examines the rhetoric through which Vietnamese state policies of selective reproduction are set forth, focusing on the ways in which official discourses on population enhancement project specific models for subjectivity, gender, and citizenship. In the discursive field constituted by official debates on population problems, reproduction is closely associated with identity: that of the nation as a coherent unity and that of the family/patrilineage. To convey these ideologies of identity and belonging, three dimensions of the national past are evoked in official discourse: a mythic past of shared biology, a socialist past of collective struggles, and a wartime past of shared injustice. This chapter adds nuance to ongoing scholarly debates regarding whether and how contemporary East Asian modes of governmentality can be characterized as neoliberal, arguing that it is important not to stretch the notion of neoliberalism too far.
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